Word: tedious
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Unfortunately, the movie's good intentions are undone by a script that gets bogged down in a needlessly overcomplex plot. What is good in the film is constantly lost in a tedious exposition. It is as if the movie's makers- including Lancaster, who functions as co-director - never recognized that what was truly worthwhile in their work was back ground, atmosphere and the social di agram of a town...
...drama, the New York Drama Critics' Award, and the Tony. Unfortunately, the cast of the touring company playing now in Boston can't do justice to the brilliant tragi-comedy of Miller's play. The tense moments of the play slip by with long pauses that are more tedious than suspenseful and the intensity of the actors' emotional outbursts is rarely in keeping with the dramatic mood that has been created on the stage. Working together, the five actors fail to create that subtly woven web of tension and humor, love and hate, that should have riveted our attention...
...decisive chords, the movement was set. The two played distinctively, yet cooperatively, Chang driving and assertive, and Kogan mature and alert. The second movement, Andante con Variazioni, is a musical puzzle of Theme and Variations. The movement is long, the tempo is slower, and the variations get a little tedious, so more concentration is needed on the performers' part to keep projecting a mood and to keep the audience's attention. Excitement resumed in the third movement, Finale: Presto. Here it was clear that Chang was leading a race in which Kogan kept up admirably...
...response, White House Counsel J. Fred Buzhardt spent four weeks locating the tapes in question on six-hour reels stored in the Executive Office Building, isolating segments that corresponded to the subpoenaed conversations and transcribing them by hand. The tapes were reportedly sometimes almost inaudible, requiring hours of tedious replaying to decipher the conversations and identities of the speakers. Said one associate: "Fred's ears have fallen beneath his collar at this point." After studying each of the transcripts and consulting with St. Clair, Buzhardt turned them over to Nixon. Aides assumed that the President, in reviewing the transcripts...
...great writer. Lytton Strachey anticipated Blotner's contribution to this genre more than fifty years ago when he remarked on "those two fat volumes, with which it is our custom to commemorate the dead...with their ill-digested masses of material, their slipshod style, their tone of tedious panegyric, their lamentable lack of selection, of detachment, of design...